I know this is a tangent and that this story isn't about dependency management, but it's important to me and I've spent a good amount of time trying to understand it completely.
I spent what I thought to be a generous amount of time trying to wrap my head around Ivy and I just couldn't make it work the way I thought it should work. I use Maven, and while I'm not a Maven...er...maven, I can work with it well enough and I'm certainly adept with its dependency management mechanisms. Ivy just seems to have way too many moving pieces and their documentation always seems to be missing key pieces of information that link theory to example. I'm left with an incomplete understanding of how Ivy works and, as a result, I can't use it effectively.
I spent what I thought to be a generous amount of time trying to wrap my head around Ivy and I just couldn't make it work the way I thought it should work. I use Maven, and while I'm not a Maven...er...maven, I can work with it well enough and I'm certainly adept with its dependency management mechanisms. Ivy just seems to have way too many moving pieces and their documentation always seems to be missing key pieces of information that link theory to example. I'm left with an incomplete understanding of how Ivy works and, as a result, I can't use it effectively.